linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] regulator: core: Don't assume always_on when is

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Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:00:10 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:     Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>, evgreen@...omium.org,
        swboyd@...omium.org, Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>,
        ryandcase@...omium.org, David Collins <collinsd@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] regulator: core: Don't assume always_on when
 is_enabled returns err

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 04:26:49PM -0800, Douglas Anderson wrote:

> At boot sometimes regulators (like qcom-rpmh-regulator) will return
> -EINVAL if we don't know the enable state of the regulator.  We
> shouldn't take this to mean that the regulator is an always-on
> regulator, but that was what was happening since "-EINVAL" is non-zero
> and a few places in the code were not properly checking for errors.

This still results in breakage - if the regulator fails to read when
we're initializing then we won't flag the regualtor as always_on, the
regulator would need to tell the framework when it becomes readable.

This hardware really is fragile :(

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